Brutally Honest Vietnam Veterans Debate The War In 1968
I have interviewed many Vietnam veterans in my career. For so many, that war and what they experienced both in Vietnam and in the USA when they return still haunts them, provokes them, intrigues them, fascinates them, disturbs them. And for people my age, this story told by individuals has been going on since 1966 and maybe even before.
I love films that capture real people in real situations debating real issues – talking openly about how they feel in this 1 is masterfully made. Just folks in a bar debating the war at a time when it was actively going on and some of those in the debate had fought in it. The film called 8 Flags for 99c by Chuck Olin. Ordinary citizens debating sides of the Vietnam war. Elements of what they are saying reminds me of the 1960sIn the heated debates about that war that were taking place in just about every home in America. On all sides. With a 50-50 America split for or against the war. Other things that they said remind me of debates going on today. In some ways thi